Happy Constitution Day, USF! September 17th is the 225th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Now, courtesy of The National Constitution Center, you too can become a signatory of the U.S. Constitution! Sign online at http://constitutioncenter.org/i-signed/
Here’s some Constitution Day trivia to impress your friends:
- The U.S. Constitution is the oldest and shortest of all the written national constitutions in the world.
- More than 11,000 amendments that have been introduced in Congress, but only 33 have gone to the states to be ratified, and only 27 have received the necessary approval from the states to actually become amendments to the Constitution.
- Of the 27 amendments that have been approved, only one has ever been repealed — the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition).
To get you in the spirit of Constitution Day and geared-up for the November elections (as well as fulfill your need to further procrastinate), here’s a video from The National Constitution Center on the role of the president and the executive branch in the U.S. Government: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=K4BF-0LCznQ]
For more information about the U.S. Constitution and Constitution Day, see Gleeson Library’s online guide or contact Carol Spector, the library’s Government Information Librarian.
Silly but this means so much more after studying for a couple months to get my US citizenship back in 2008. Surprising fact, not many Americans know a whole lot about US history, the Constitution or Bill of Rights.